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Squatters in the Palace of Culture

Officer Maurito has been tasked with evicting some squatters from the Palace of Culture. He can't do it, for his own reasons, but perhaps you can.

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Tell the squatters about the bomb

  1. Return to the squatters with the bomb in order to complete their ritual.

  2. The bomb is triggered by the song 'Superbloc, Baby!'

Get the squatters to leave the Palace of Culture

  1. News of the 'singing' bomb you found may convince the squatters to leave.

  2. You haven't been able to convince the squatters to leave yet.

  3. The squatters want to remain in the building to figure out a song they are hearing.

  4. The squatters want the bomb brought to them so they can complete their seance.

  5. The building is structurally unsound, they need to leave before it collapses on them.

Locate the squatters

  1. Maurito the GM asked you to find them inside the dark and disused building.

  2. Two of the musicians Septimus works with have vanished while scouting locations for a music video.

Report back to Maurito

  1. He's probably where you left him -- right outside the entrance to the Palace of Culture.

Glean what you can about the song from these strange visions

  1. You saw Nestor taking a shit.

  2. Operant PROBABLE tasked a young woman with delivering a gift to Nestor at the "listening party" in his office.

  3. Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader, refused to deliver a welcoming speech to a delegation from the Superbloc.

  4. The pneumatic tube system sucked a package somewhere into the building.

  5. You witnessed the execution of a Superbloc treaty.

  6. The Superbloc ambassador brought a song to Portofiro as part of the party conference, but it was never played.

Locate the source of the mysterious song

  1. The package went to a cubby hole marked D6 in Nestor's office.

  2. You found a bomb in Nestor's office.

  3. You can now hear the song the squatters are talking about, but are yet to find where it comes from.

  4. Kurt said the song is coming from a box in a cubby hole marked D6 in the office upstairs.

  5. Melita suggested there is something in the pneumatic tubes. The basement might have a hub.

  6. The squatters in the Palace of Culture can hear a song coming from somewhere in the buildng.

  7. In the past, Operant PROBABLE tasked a young woman with delivering a gift to Nestor's office.

  8. The squatters suggest you explore the building to find where the song comes through most clearly.

  9. The bomb is the source of the building's song, triggered by a particular recording.

  10. The song seems to be louder near one of the pneumatic tubes.

  11. A package was fed into the pneumatic tube system. It probably ended up somewhere upstairs.

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